The Poetical Works of John Langhorne ... To which are prefixed, Memoirs of the Author by his Son the Rev. J. T. Langhorne ... In Two Volumes |
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CANZON.
Gay youths and frolic damsels round me throng,And smiling say, Why, shepherd, wilt thou write
Thy lays of love adventurous to recite
In unknown numbers and a foreign tongue?
Shepherd, if Hope hath ever wrought thee wrong,
Afar from her and Fancy's fairy light
Retire—So they to sport with me delight;
And other shores, they say, and other streams
Thy presence wait; and sweetest flowers that blow,
Their ripening blooms reserve for thy fair brow,
Where glory soon shall bear her brightest beams;
Thus they, and yet their soothing little seems;
If she, for whom I breathe the tender vow,
Sing these soft lays, and ask the mutual song,
This is thy language, Love, and I to thee belong!
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